Saimeera moves into joint lead
Arvind Aaron
Chennai, July 9, 2011
Woman International Master Saimeera Ravi of Indian Bank defeated Savetha to join the leaders at the end of the ninth round in the National women Challengers chess championship here on Friday.
Tamil Nadu's Saimeera took the place of Statemate Savetha in the lead while the other three leaders retained their positions.
B. Pratyusha (AP), Nimmy George (Kerala), Bhakti Kulkarni (Goa) and Saimeera are on seven points from nine games. Two more rounds remain to be played.
Saimeera as usual played the closed variation against the Sicilian defence of Savetha and trooped in with her rook to win a bishop on move 37 which decided the issue in her favour.
On the top table, Nimmy missed her chance in the extra pawn ending featuring two bishops each. Pratyusha fought well and with some luck was able to draw in 40 moves.
Comfortable draw
Divyasree played a comfortable 44-move draw with white against Bhakti after the players reached a level-pawn ending.
Bharathi softened up Sahajasri with moves difficult to encounter in the early middlegame and later sacrificed a rook on move 28 to net the white king.
The last two rounds are likely to be uninteresting with a spate of agreed quick draws on the cards. The players will be eagerly looking for a qualifying berth in the top 20 and a place in the National Premier.
Important results (ninth round): B. Pratyusha (AP) 7 drew with Nimmy George (Ker) 7, C. Divyasree (AP) 6.5 drew with Bhakti Kulkarni (Goa) 7, Saimeera Ravi (TN) 7 bt C.H. Savetha (TN) 6.5, C. Sahajasri (AP) 6 lost to R. Bharathi (TN) 6.5, P.V. Nandhidhaa (TN) 6 drew with A. Sithalatchumi (TN) 6.
A. Akshaya (TN) 6 drew with Pon N. Krithikha (TN) 6, Michelle Catherina (TN) 6.5 bt J. Janani (TN) 5.5, Bala Kannamma (TN) 5.5 lost to S. Harini (TN) 6.5, M. Mahalakshmi (TN) 5.5 lost to Swati Mohota (WB) 6, R. Preethi (TN) 5 lost to G. Lasya (AP) 6, V. Sree Lakshmi (AP) 5 lost to Pallabi Roy (WB) 6.
Supriya Joshi (Mah) 6 bt Shristi Shetty (Kar) 5, Shweta Gole (Mah) 6 bt V. Varshini (ATN) 5, Madhurima Shekhar (Del) 6 bt N.L.V. Anusha (AP) 4.5.
You can find tournament information at Chess-Results.com. This is a large female-only event: 101 players. Here are the top standings after R9:
| Rk. | Name | FED | Rtg | Club/City | Pts. | TB1 | TB2 | |
| 1 | CM | Kulkarni Bhakti | IND | 2317 | GOA | 7.0 | 50.5 | 45.0 |
| 2 | Nimmy A G | IND | 2222 | KER | 7.0 | 50.0 | 44.5 | |
| 3 | Pratyusha Bodda | IND | 2064 | AP | 7.0 | 49.0 | 44.5 | |
| 4 | WIM | Meera Sai | IND | 2119 | TN | 7.0 | 44.5 | 40.0 |
| 5 | WFM | Bharathi R | IND | 2117 | TN | 6.5 | 46.0 | 41.5 |
| 6 | Savetha C H | IND | 1992 | TN | 6.5 | 45.5 | 41.0 | |
| 7 | Chandika Divyasree | IND | 2123 | AP | 6.5 | 44.5 | 40.5 | |
| 8 | Harini S | IND | 2022 | TN | 6.5 | 43.0 | 38.5 | |
| 9 | Michelle Catherina P | IND | 2052 | TN | 6.5 | 42.0 | 38.0 | |
| 10 | Cholleti Sahajasri | IND | 2023 | AP | 6.0 | 48.0 | 44.0 | |
| 11 | Nandhidhaa Pv | IND | 2101 | TN | 6.0 | 47.5 | 43.0 | |
| 12 | Supriya Joshi | IND | 1829 | MAH | 6.0 | 47.0 | 42.0 | |
| 13 | Roy Pallabi | IND | 1944 | WB | 6.0 | 43.5 | 39.0 | |
| 14 | A Akshaya | IND | 1966 | TN | 6.0 | 43.0 | 39.0 | |
| 15 | Shweta Gole | IND | 1922 | MAH | 6.0 | 41.0 | 37.0 | |
| Lasya G | IND | 1898 | AP | 6.0 | 41.0 | 37.0 | ||
| Madhurima Shekhar | IND | 1854 | DEL | 6.0 | 41.0 | 37.0 | ||
| 18 | Sithalatchumi A | IND | 1939 | TN | 6.0 | 40.0 | 36.0 | |
| 19 | WFM | Swati Mohota | IND | 2051 | WB | 6.0 | 40.0 | 35.5 |
| 20 | WFM | Pon Nkrithika | IND | 2075 | TN | 6.0 | 39.0 | 35.0 |
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